Cloth-piling apparatus.



W. M. GUSTIN.

CLOTH FILING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED 1330.4, 1912.

Patented Dec. 30, 1913.

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W. M. GUSTIN. CLOTH FILING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED no.4, 1912.

1,082,692. Patented Dec. 30, 1913.

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COLUMBIA PLANDORAPH c0.. WASHINGTON. D. C.

WILLIAM M. GUSTIN, 0F JAMAICA'PLAIN, MASSACHUSETTSA, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES D. W. HALSEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTH-FILING APPARATUS.

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Application filed December 4, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM M. GUsriN, a. citizen of the United States, and resident of Jamaica Plain, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Im- Jrovement in Cloth-Pilin Atmaratus of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the draw ings representing like parts.

in the production of blanks from cloth stock as for the lining of shoes it is customary to unwind the cloth from the roll in which it is commercially supplied and arrange it in superposed layers several yards long and built up to as great a thickness as can be blanked or died out at an operation of the blanking-out die. This operation is usually performed largely by hand the cloth eing folded on a long table with the supplying roll mounted at one end thereof.

While having other and more general fields of usefulness, a prime object of my invention is to provide automatically operatmechanism adapted to draw the cloth from the roll, lay it rapidly and evenly in folds to the desired number, and in its more comprehensive embodiment supply the rods or bars at the ends of the folds around which the successive folds are drawn.

To these ends the invention consists in a traveling platfo m, shown as a car, mounted on a track at the sides of the folding table and provided with a guiding mechanism for properly feeding and laying the cloth,

along with improved means for feeding the I rods at the limits of its travel in position to have the successive layers folded therearound.

The above and other features and objects of the invention will be better understood from the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and will be thereafter pointed out in the appended claims.

leferring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a folding table and car wherein my invention is embodied; Fig. 9. is a diagrammatic view showing the manner of laying the cloth in folds as carried out by my invention; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the apparatus; Fig. 4 is an enlarged plan at one end showing the folding car; and Fig. 5 is a vertical section on line 55 of Fig. 4.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dee. 3Q, 11%13.

Serial No. 734,8?2.

The piling table is indicated at 10 of a length somewhat greater than the longest folds which it maybe desired to make and it carries at one end bearing brackets 11 for the cloth roll a. This table is provided with tracks 12 at its sides on which a car 13 is adapted to travel. The table is shown as equipped with stops 1 1 at each end to prevent the car running off and the car is shown as driven by an electric motor 15 which may have a suitable controller (not shown) for deenergizing or reversing the same at the ends of its travel. The car 13 has uprights 16 for supporting at some lit tle elevation guide rollers 17, 18 over which the cloth is paid out. Directly below the roller 18 on the body of the car are mount ed a pair of rollers 19, 20, spaced apart a little distance so that the cloth roll may feed out around either without contacting with the other. Vith this construction the cloth web Z) as drawn off the roll a passes up over the roll 17 at the adjacent corner of the car being elevated thereby to an extent so that it does not interfere with the stretch of the web 0 being laid underneath the same. From the roller 17 the web passes around the roller 18 and down around one of the rollers 19, 20, the roller 20 being ac tive as shown when the car is moving to the left in Fig. 1 and the roller 19 being active when the car is moving to the right in said figure, it being noted that in each case the cloth feeds down from the roll 18 substantially centrally of the car and in a vertical direction. From the rolls 19, 20 the cloth is laid down to form the folds and in the operation of the mechanism the successive folds are laid around holding rods 21 which are deposited in vertical holders 22 adjacent the respective ends of the machine. In accordance with a further feature of the invention 1 provide means for automatically supplying and feeding these rods to said holders and for this purpose I provide vertical magazine holders 23 for a number of rods adjacent the ends of the car 18. These rods are fed out as required, one by one, by a feeding device cooperative with the open bottom of these holders, this feeding device being shown as a segment shaped member 2-1 swinging on a shaft 25 with a recess 26 to receive a rod at one limit of its swinging movement and with its peripheral face adapted to close the bottom of the holder 93 during its swinging travel. This segment shaped member is actuated to transfer a rod in recess 26 to a table holder 22 as the car approaches the end of its travel in each direction by a rack 27 fixed to the table in position to engage the segment gear 28 rigid with the segment 2%. lVith this constr ction it will be understood that as the car nears the end of its travel the segment Q l will be shifted to move the recess 26 with a rod therein from the position shown at the left in Fi 5 to a position as at the right wherein the rod will drop out of said recess and into a holder 22. the tops of these holders being shown as flared out at 29 to insure tl reception of the rod as thus delivered. In practice the roll a has a light b ake applied thereto so that the cloth is paid out und r sufficient tension to insure evening out of the folds and it will be evi dent that by the mechanism described not only are the folds laid rapidly and evenly but all creases and wrinkles will be straightened out and the pile of folded layers as built up for the blanking out operation, laid in the best. and most perfect manner.

I am aware that various of the details of construction as herein described can be nodified considerably without departing from the spirit of the invention and I therefore do not desire to be limited to these but refer to thappended claims rather than to the foregoing description to indicate the scope of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. Apparatus of the kind described, comprising a piling table having a mounting at one end for a roll of cloth and equipped with a track, a car operable on said track havin an elevated guide for receiving the cloth from a roll in said mounting, guiding means at a lower part of said car and substantially central of the length thereof adapted to feed out the cloth in each direction of car movement for piling, and means at each end of said car for automatically feeding out folding rods ateach limit of car movement.

2. Apparatus of the kind described, comprising a piling table having a track, a car operable on said track equipped with means for receiving the cloth and feeding it out for piling in each direction of car movement, and means for automatically feeding out folding rods at the limit of car movement consisting in a magazine holder on the car, an oscillatory member having a recess adapted to receive one rod at a time from such holder, said member having rigid therewith agear segment, a fixed receiving holder on the table, and a rack element adjacent there to for meshing with said gear segment to operate said meml er for delivering a rod.

3. Apparatus of the kind described, comprising a piling table, a car operable thereon equipped with means for receiving cloth and feeding it out for piling in each direc tion of car movement, and means for feeding out folding rods from said car consisting in a magazine holder and an oscillatory member having a recess cooperative therewith for feeding out one rod at a time, and means for operating said member at the limit of car movement.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

\VILLIAM M. GUSTIN.

Witnesses CLINTON E. LAWRENCE, Gnoucn F. Janus.

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